ISLANDS CRUISE
KETCH RETURNS HOME. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.! AUCKLAND. October 13. After a cruise of New Caledonia ami the Loyalty Islands, the Amklamlowned ketch. Seaward, arrived this morning from Brisbane, whence she sailed on September 1.2. The crow comprise Captain Dick i Welling!mi). B. Archer and .1. Bartlett (Auckland). J. Smith (Brisbane) ami JI. T. Gutward (Fiji». On the Loyally Islands cruise two members of the crew. Fat Chnklereot t and Hud Robins, both of Auckland, contracted coral poisoning. They returned home by a steamer from Noumea ami were replaced by other men. Nearing the Now Zealand coast, a whale passed a few loci from the how. A member of Hie crew, who was attempting t> pliotogr-iph it from the Ijowsptit. was so frightened by Hie 'whale’s dive, under ihc ship that he nearly fell overboard i n at tempting to regain the deck. Only once during the voyage were the seas so rough as to cause alarm, tn. Havana. Pass. Noumea, fierce gales blew out the head sails and the storm trysail.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 October 1939, Page 2
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